Team Europe retains the Ryder Cup 🏆

Interesting insights from the Opta Supercomputer himself

The analytics competition will allow folks to creatively identify characteristics or visualizations of player movement, either on the offensive or defensive sides of the ball www.kaggle.com/c/nfl-big-da...

The leaderboard competition will use the last 5 weeks of 2025 to identify who builds the best model/algorithm www.kaggle.com/c/nfl-big-da...

The 2026 Big Data Bowl #BigDataBowl is live! Participants can sign up for two competitions: - leaderboard - traditional analytics competition This year's task: predict/understand player movement when the ball is in the air

Hey y'all, if you use LinkedIn - as of Nov. 3, they'll have you opted in to train AI on your data (including DMs) unless you opt out. Opting out is not hard: click on settings and just turn it off.

Yes, the UK is turning into an "island of strangers". I am one of these strangers, and every day which passes makes me feel more like one.

this exists it is called thinking

What tactical state happens after a dribble? Using Hidden Markov Models on dribbles to see how much a dribbles progresses attacks in the English Premier League 2025-2026. Moving from event data to tactical states. marclamberts.substack.com/p/what-tacti...

Just got an email from Evri...

JD Vance Booed  By Own Reflection  In Mirror https://theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-reflection-in-mirror/

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

Lol. Well played you absolute muppets. You've only made it look even more terrifying, sinister and powerful.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Cleveland Guardians – Data Scientist blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...

InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Seattle Mariners – Multiple 2026 Internship Openings blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...

Who's doing good analytical work in football that I should take note of? I need to beef up my timeline.

Come work for us! FanGraphs is now accepting applications to join our staff as a Full-Time Prospect Writer. You can find more information on the job and how to apply at the link below:

Who's doing good analytical work in football that I should take note of? I need to beef up my timeline.

"The price of greed = empty seats! Football must be affordable!" German fans at tonight's World Cup qualifier against Northern Ireland in Köln, which isn't sold out. With standard tickets costing between €50 and €127.65, unsurprising. 📷 @shermanns.bsky.social

A legendary career 👏🏼🏆 Geraint Thomas has retired after a glittering career on both the road and track. 📸 Sprint Cycling

🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...

“What if, when the opposition has 11 players behind the ball, a centre-back decided it was more worthwhile to ‘kick for touch’ rather than attempt to play through midfield?” Oh boy do I have a research presentation for you

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Don’t miss out the best #sportsanalytics conference out there!

The Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference is an annual event dedicated to highlighting the latest sports research from the statistics and data science community. Registration for the 2025 CMSAConference is open. 🔗 www.cmsaconference.com

Gonna hype this up a bit. It's quite a unique position in European football (i remember only one junior de job post posted before) and there is a big project ahead that's gonna look very good in any tech cv, not only for football jobs. The team is full of specialists and we enjoy working together.

He's 14 till he's 15

Can’t wait to joke with my friends about bespoke movies none of them has seen. Or go to the con where everyone has seen a different movie and nobody knows what the fuck anyone else is talking about or whatever thing these fucking idiots don’t understand about shared experience.

Andrew Scott is a contemporary artist renowned for his bold "frame-breaking" creations, where characters in his paintings seem to penetrate through glass. Through this unique creative approach, Scott explores themes of freedom, solitude, and resilience. Artist: @andrewscott_art #art #visualart

Really strong presentations last year, very enjoyable and well-run event. Looking forward to this one

REMINDER: The call for proposals for the 2026 American Soccer Insights Summit closes at 11:59 PM CT on September 1st. In partnership with SkillCorner, we are excited to offer women’s soccer tracking data to support the researchers who send us the best proposals. More info: tinyurl.com/34rkpb8f

I'm looking for Junior Data Engineer to join Football Insights team to work directly with me on a very exciting roadmap. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

Very cool role, which is basically the data translator role spoken about for the last years. It does feel like baseball is always ahead of curve with the profiles they recruit.

I fought Reform and I won

the Sampha drop in this made me scream. Masterful

Got a new one out for y'all. This is shotplaylist. It's a two part feature combining shareable clip playlists with customizable shotcharts. Here's how it works. 🧵 #NBASKY #DENVER #( Insert here I could use the distribution)

𝐖𝐞'𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝 Wolves paid tribute to Diogo Jota and Andre Silva before their game against Manchester City.

New season, new reminder that you can follow a bunch of smart soccer people here

Four years to the day since we lost the one and only Sean Lock. Lee Mack recounting Sean’s gratitude for his life is so moving.

The 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 has been opened, so if you're interested in sharing 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 passion project, don't hesitate to submit it! All talks will be in English. The deadline of submission is October 12th.

If you want to know more about the types of Sports analytics talks you might see, the PySport YouTube channel currently has 12 previously held talks available online to draw inspiration from! www.youtube.com/@PySport-fg2mu

⚡️Do NOT let Musk get his hands on British utilities. He’s applied for a license to supply energy here. ✍️ Tell Ofgem what you think about that: www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elo...

Reminder that TOMORROW is the deadline to submit an abstract for the Carnegie Mellon #SportsAnalytics Conference (www.stat.cmu.edu/cmsac/confer...) #ReproducibleResearch competition! #statistics #datascience #AI

Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism theonion.com/israel-...

🍒 Why he's not worried by his Bournemouth contract expiring in 2026 🍒 The difficulty of signing players from the Premier League 🍒 Why he studies how players celebrate when their team scores 🍒 What NBA tactics have taught him Bournemouth head coach Andoni Iraola speaks to @adamcrafton.bsky.social.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.